ŞER’İYYE SİCİL DEFTERLERİ’NİN SANAT TARİHİ ARAŞTIRMALARINDAKİ ÖNEMİ (KAYSERİ ÖLÇEĞİ)

In terms of art history studies, the direct or indirect data in the court records of
Kayseri (Ser’iyye Sicil Defterleri of Kayseri) can be used. From these records it can be
found out: in which century the surviving and unsurviving monuments were actively used,
the physical development of the city, the monuments’ donor, the date of building, in which
neighbourhood they were, when and whom they were repaired by, the amount of
foundation revenue; whose mutevelli they were, how much wage imam, muezzin,
zaviyedar, muderris and the other officials had. Unless the evaluation of our basic sources
like Ser’iyye Sicil Defterleri by being wholly read can be made, all the studies on Turkish
art, history, culture and the other fields will be lacking.